Some brilliant images explaining white privilege (about as well as the Invisible Knapsack, IMHO) got posted to Buzzfeed about three days ago. You can still seem them right […]
racism
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Silence Is Assent: This is Still A Segregated Country
If you don’t speak about the problem, you are part of the problem. Data is from The Racial Dot Map
racism / sexism / sfwa
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An Open Letter to The Men In Genre Fandom
[Full disclosure – I am a member of SFWA and have written articles for the SFWA Bulletin. In fact, I should have an article in the next one.] […]
racism / sexism
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I Don’t Want (or Deserve) Your Cookie For My Personal Examples
Actively supporting equality doesn’t deserve praise the same way that being a toilet-trained adult doesn’t deserve praise.
racism / religion / writing / writing the other
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Writing the Other: Taking a Lesson from Les blanches exotiques
I’ve been following Les blanches exotiques for a few weeks now. It’s usually hilarious (to me) because it’s so damn spot-on. It also flips the discrimination narrative in […]
politics / racism
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Whitewashing Racism, or the Inerrancy of the Founding Fathers Is Crap
Tea Party Groups In Tennessee Demand Textbooks Overlook U.S. Founder’s Slave-Owning History Yes, that’s for real. One quote (emphasis mine): “No portrayal of minority experience in the history […]